Tharkun

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by Tharkun 8y ago
In Belgium, covering your face in public has been illegal for at least as long as I've been alive. It's not usually strictly enforced (e.g. scarves in winter are fine), but it's nevertheless the law. When I was maybe 6 years
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by Tharkun 8y ago
There are basically no laptops with good keyboards anymore. I've given up on trying to find one. Thinkpads have gone down the drain. Lenovo aren't even offering on-site support or extended warranty on all models anymore (even if y
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by Tharkun 8y ago
That's a fair point. IMO it's easy to mix a whole array of concerns with annotations, much more so than what you'd likely do in 'normal' code. Some annotations are really compiler instructions ("don't prin
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> My main issue with Java is all the annotation based programming. That seems like an easy problem to solve. Don't use annotations. Snark aside, it can be a bit of a tricky balancing act. When there are more annotations than actual
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Perhaps legionnaires' disease has something to do with it instead?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Seems like an unfair comparison, given how much of a massive industrial powerhouse Germany is.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I have a name. They can look for that.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I don't use photos online anywhere. When silly tools/platform require the use of some kind of profile picture, I draw a stick figure or something similarly silly. It might not look terribly professional, but my face is entirely ir
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> I have Thinkpad X280 I considered getting one. But they don't come with on-site warranty in my area -- and the warranty can't be upgraded to include on-site service. Not sure what their deal is with that. Makes me think they&
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Pioneered? VirtualKid had blogs for their user base back in 1997. I'm sure others were around even earlier.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Trial periods, too, are no longer allowed over here. They used to be permissible up to 6 months (which was an insanely long time to essentially live with the knowledge that you could basically be sacked any day). But now they're gone.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I was under the impression that heat recovery ventilators weren't worth their cost. They're a lot more expensive to buy, and a hell of a lot more expensive to install (complicated ducting etc). Has that changed in recent years?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I've certainly worked in poorly ventilated offices, and my bedroom is even worse. But I don't think I've ever gotten dizzy in an office. Is this something that affect different people at different rates?
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Even at low speeds bikes and cars shouldn't mix. Getting hit by a car sucks, at any speed. Of course the risk and severity of injury goes up as speed increases. We have a guideline that says that up to 30km/h cars and bicycles can
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by Tharkun 8y ago
It's no different. Bicycles should never mix with motor traffic. This is why bike lanes are a thing.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> but unless it’s time actually working with your team on a real project.. I've ranted about this before on HN, but that's very much illegal in my neck of the woods. As soon as someone does useful work for you, they're an
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by Tharkun 8y ago
They're something of a plague in my home town as well, they're strewn all over the pavement/sidewalk/footpath(/whatever regional word), even when there was barely enough room for pedestrians. Perhaps the users/
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Wonderful. I guess I'll now have to find a way to regenerate this UUID or to spoof it every time Fedora tries to phone home. If you want to count users, ask for permission during firstboot. If that's too much to ask, then I'l
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by Tharkun 8y ago
And why should I trust CF any more than I trust my ISP? The latter is a European company which is bound by all kinds of privacy protection laws, and which I have to trust to at least some degree because I pay them. The former is an entity w
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I have a bunch of project/location specific environment preparing handles in my .aliases file. Stuff like: alias @projectName="cd $project && alias java='/some/specific/version' && export S
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by Tharkun 8y ago
"alias ll='ls -al'" is the first thing I type every time I ssh into any system that isn't mine.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Incremental reading is exactly what I've been looking for. Thanks for sharing!
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Wikipedia seems to suggest this is unlikely: > Hypotheses have also advanced toward linking reversals to mass extinctions.[47] Many such arguments were based on an apparent periodicity in the rate of reversals, but more careful analyses
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by Tharkun 8y ago
There are various options, but for long periods single lead devices are often used, can't really walk around for 30 days with a 12 lead holter strapped to you...would make bathing rather difficult. It's possible to implant small l
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Not likely. Heart rhythm isn't so much about the rate at which the whole thing beats, it's rather a little more complicated than that. It's about the synchronization between different parts of the heart, about the way the sig
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> * Countries cannot claim a nuclear weapons research program is really a nuclear fusion power research program, like they can with a nuclear fission power research program. Weapons are a physics problem, where you're trying to dire
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by Tharkun 8y ago
Of course not, I wasn't being entirely serious, but it's certainly a contributing factor. I enjoy the social aspect of going out for lunch (and the flavour aspect, of course). It's difficult to eat out and eat something healt
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by Tharkun 8y ago
I feel the same. Sadly it's quite hard to find a healthy lunch near my office, and this is why I'm overweight.
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by Tharkun 8y ago
> Go to about:config and set extensions.pocket.enabled to false. That doesn't remove Pocket, it merely disables it. It's a stupid feature and a stupid default. It should be an extension that users can choose to install (or not)
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by Tharkun 8y ago
The more they pull stunts like these, the more i realize it's time to fork FF and get rid of all their garbage. Make Pocket optional, remove the (paid?) list of URLs that's apparently preloaded, remove all of the phone home shit.

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